Bernadette

[ bur-nuh-det; French ber-na-det ]

/ ˌbɜr nəˈdɛt; French bɛr naˈdɛt /

Saint. Also called Bernadette of Lourdes . Marie Bernarde Soubirous or Soubiroux, 1844–79, French nun.

a female given name: derived from Bernard.

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Let’s Free Stacey Addison, The Oregon Woman Jailed at the Ends of the Earth|Christopher Dickey|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Bernadette Peters was there, as were Marlo Thomas, Steve Guttenberg, Judy Collins and Mario Cantone.
I Was There: Inside Joan Rivers’ Funeral|Tim Teeman|September 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yet, when asked specifically about the deal, National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan kept her response vague.
The Big Weapons that the U.S. May Be Secretly Supplying to the Syrian Rebels|Thomas Gibbons-Neff|April 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Daily Pic: The Bernadette Corporation upended fashion, then moved on to art.
Corporation in a Beret|Blake Gopnik|September 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Expecting easy soundbites from the Bernadette Corporation is like wishing a Cezanne would look more like a Rockwell.
Bernadette Corporation: Mutating Art Collective Succeeds in the Avant Garde|Blake Gopnik|September 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Bernadette wants one, and he's ready to do anything she wishes.
A Young Man's Year|Anthony Hope
Yet Bernadette is as Jeanne, though there are more than four hundred years between.
Jeanne d'Arc|Mrs.(Margaret) Oliphant
"Well, there's a—a considering look in your eyes sometimes that I don't quite like," said Bernadette.
A Young Man's Year|Anthony Hope
Esther had taken Bernadette's flight with just a shrug of her shoulders; that had seemed to her really the only way to take it.
A Young Man's Year|Anthony Hope
All is well if they come to no harm, but it is somewhat chilly for our Bernadette.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science|Various